"We live ruins amid ruins...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”

“Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.”

“Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.”

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”

“Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.”

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

“I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable”

“For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.”

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”